Sentences with phrase «modern studies on»

Besides, modern studies on mugwort have shown it has antiviral properties, and as ancient medicine was based solely on empirical data, making fun of Koreans for actually using it is totally not okay.

Since 1960, when modern studies on this group began, Sturnira has grown from eight species to 22.

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This year's Summer Olympics provide a modern case study on the importance on internet performance.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett's companies catering only to whites, reveals new study on modern day redlining of America

With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S. capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.

Modern study of the Pauline letters has shed important light on the specific circumstances of his teaching on the law, faith, and justification.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

The use of historical - critical method within modern historiography has met with opposition on theological grounds: would not two methods of studying history necessarily involve two classes of historical reality?

William H. Whyte, a leader in the study of modern urban street life, spent decades studying the patterns of diverse people on the move.

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

9; J. N. Mohanty, Nicolai Hartmann and Alfred North Whitehead: A Study in Recent Platonism (Calcutta: Modern India Press, 1957), p. 78; and Charles Hartshorne, «Whitehead's Novel Intuition» in Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on his Philosophy, ed.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

One of the consequences of the focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.

Some modern theologians, relying on insights and suggestions from human development studies, have tried to describe a kind of total human process that goes on in and during the experience of death.

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

In these studies Buber leads us on a narrow ridge between the traditionalist's insistence on the literal truth of the biblical narrative and the modern critic's tendency to regard this narrative as of merely literary or symbolic significance.

Modern scholarship lays stress on parables as metaphors.104 The root of the study of metaphor is traced to the Greek classics, where it was understood as a single word.

It supplied the impetus which set the modern study of history on its feet.

(Among the countless works on Christian freedom, I refer the reader to Martin Luther's, and to the following modern studies: Roland de Pury, Le Libérateur [Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1957]; Jacques Ellul, The Ethics of Freedom, trans.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

Besides studies on Hegel, Marx and Kierkegaard, he has published works on religion (notably The Other Dimension: A Dubious Heritage and Transcendent Selfhood) and on modern culture (Passage to Modernity).

Wesley's emphasis on the small group — most famously, his disciplined, close - knit «CLASS meetings» — has shaped the landscape of modern American spirituality through «cell groups,» Bible studies, and many other small - group modes of fellowship and worship.

What we have in Paul is a further, and very distinctive, development of the primitive Christology, partly on the basis of pre-Christian Jewish and even syncretistic — that is, partly pagan — speculations (Paul's contact with the pagan world of his time is recognized in most modern studies; indeed, it is sometimes exaggerated.

Stressing the relevance of a given course or discipline to the modern world, putting more emphasis on psychological and sociological studies, or locating students in field situations, while important, will not solve the problem.

Recent research in cognitive psychology and communication studies have called into question many of the assumptions on which modern education has been based.

The Visitors» Center at Haleakala National Park on Maui offers an intriguing study of the unexpected impact a traditional world - view can make on the modern consciousness.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Modern Trends in World Religions, edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa, is not a systematic introduction to world religions but is useful as a general introduction for it is a collection of essays on current trends and problems in the study of world religions as seen by competent scholars who have been reflecting on the results of their research.

(See my «The Spiritual Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature 54:1 - 15; also the «Note on Christology» in my Frontiers of Christian Thinking (1935), and my essay, The Significance of Critical Study of the Gospels for Religious Thought Today,» in the volume presented to Professor Harris Franklin Rall, Theology and Modern Life, ed.

We really don't know what Bonhoeffer meant by religion, and our modern study of the problem of religionlessness must be carried on quite independent of the task, probably fruitless, of establishing just what Bonhoeffer meant.

In The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, the Old Testament scholar John Collins observes that the rules for historical study are academic rather than confessional, based on modern canons of historical analysis rather than classical principles of faith.

In it, Enns focuses on three specific problems / questions raised by the modern study of the Old Testament and uses those specific problems / questions to engage in a broader conversation about the nature of Scripture.

The importance of Eastern meditation has gradually been recognized in the modern Western literature on the science of religion and elucidated in various technical studies.

Through their collaboration on this course of study, Lawrence grew to appreciate Strauss's contrast between Athens and Jerusalem, and the ancients and moderns, especially his generally forgotten narrative of the «three waves of modernity.»

On the other hand, it would be overly simple to claim the Hebrew Scriptures in support of our modern study of animal life or the work of environmental conservation, since it is clear that neither priest not prophet thought the order of nature as we now see it to reflect God's intentions, either original or ultimate, for it.

The general point that has been made is that in the new conditions of the modern world the comparative study of religion has moved into a new phase — first, in that the object of inquiry has on a quite new scale been seen to be communities of persons.

The Institute for Advanced Christian Studies is sponsoring an important series of college textbooks on Christianity and modern intellectual concerns.

Under the influence of theories of progress or decline or development in history such study has frequently been carried on for the purpose of explaining the differences between Biblical and modern life before God.

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

Having studied their mother's yogurt recipe very closely, Winston and Henry have introduced a modern take on the old recipe, which offers twice the protein of regular yogurt and twice the calcium of the leading Greek yogurt.

Using one - on - one support modern studies and proven techniques.

I am writing a book on colic, looking at how women in different parts of the world deal with colic, and also at modern studies that explore various causes and solutions.

So you're saying any studies that show formula yields better results (not that Tanya was making such claims) would be due to the impossibility of developing a fair sampling / testing method, but you have no problem extolling the virtues of breast feeding, not to mention perpetuating this modern day phrenology of head circumference as a determination of future IQ, based on the same flawed science?

A study focusing on the complex and changing role of fathers in the modern American family was released by the Boston College Center for Work & Family on June 18, 2010.

«Genetics of the modern heirs of the Inkas shed new lights about their origins and lineages: The first study on families of documented Inka nobility ancestry shows at least two patrilineal clusters and their origins linked to the lake Titicaca and Southern Cusco region.»

Their activities were transnational and unbounded by national frameworks, which is how most studies on the creation of modern democracies have been, and continue to be written.

Tom studied Ancient and Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he stayed to do an MSt in US History, followed by his DPhil on social and political thought in revolutionary America.

James Stern - Weiner is a graduate student in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, and is working on a book about resolving the Israel - Palestine conflict.